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Feb. 1st, 2012

Feb. 1st, 2012

How often I've told students that Marie Antoinette and her ladies would go and play milk-maid--actually dressing up like peasants (well peasants in cloth of gold) and miming peasant work. This was because milk-maids were notorious for their beauty. They had the clearest skin because they never got small pox. From their milking they all got cow pox.... and the then Jenner etc.